OK - so........sounds like you are still walking on eggshells. Why? If she gets mad and walks out because you assert a legitimate need/want it is her problem not yours. In my R I get the admission that the need is real and then I get taken to dinner. The actual assertion is never addressed. I have been stupid and let it continue because confronting is hard for me. It has been the death of my R. No, I don't think that level of sex in a new and well functioning early R. It really doesn't matter what is "normal" it only matters that what is going on isn't working for 1/2 of the dyad. When she "flips out" walk away.